Posted on: May 1, 2020

rex_butler

Spiele: 115 Rezensionen: 70

Another mediocre space game

I played Everspace with its expansion, Encounters, and found it completely underwhelming. On the positive side, it is as gorgeous as the pictures and videos suggest, and it can be played comfortably with a keyboard and mouse (it was actually more awkward with my controller). The combat can be satisfying, and each weapon has its own feel. However, after a few hours of play, you realize that the game is just a pretty arcade space shooter with no character or real story line. In general, you jump from randomly generated sector to sector and fight other ships that may or may not appear. When you eventually get blown up--which will happen many times even on easy difficulty--you respawn in a hanger and get to upgrade your ship with whatever loot you got during the last run. It could be an addictive, workable progression system, except it all feels like grinding in an empty space field for the same scraps each time. During my 3-4 hours of game play, a story did appear to be unfolding, but it seemed to be an afterthought--just enough to temporarily break up the monotony of cruising through quiet sectors. Dying over and over again is a core feature of the game, which has never appealed to me in any game. It's poor game design that reveals a certain lack of imagination on the part of the developers who should have really included a proper campaign and better level dynamics. This might be worth a try for $5. Otherwise, don't bother. The sad part is that this game could have been something special.

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Posted on: June 7, 2017

Pillagius

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Spiele: 88 Rezensionen: 1

Definitely worth it

Fight. Explore. Survive. Awesome visuals, much more dynamic gameplay compared to "big name" space combat titles. Randomly generated maps full of dangers won't let you slack off. Great soundtrack and neat story, which even manages to nicely justify "rouge-like" nature of gameplay. Definitely worth about 20h of gameplay.

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Posted on: June 9, 2017

SINphul

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Spiele: 513 Rezensionen: 1

FTL + Action Packed Dogfights = Awesome

This is an 6-degrees-of-freedom (6DOF) arcade space shooter with rogue-lite elements. Your goal is to travel through six star systems in order to get to your final destination, all while a hostile alien race is hunting you down. In broad concept, it's similar to what FTL was attempting, but without all the boring parts and much, much prettier. After each death (and there will be many), you carry over any credits, perks and blueprints that you collected during your run, which you can use to upgrade your abilities and improve your chances for the next run. Each run features procedurally generated levels, so you never get the same locations twice. The graphics are stunning. The controls are tight. And the gameplay loop is very addicting. This has been the only Kickstarter project that I've been proud to have backed thus far. I highly recommend it.

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Posted on: June 1, 2017

Archbandit

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Is it luck or you? Who knows?

Good thing: Looks good. Bad thing: controls a bit over the place with keyboard and mouse. Good thing: the story is short, so it doesn't distract from the simple gameplay. Bad thing: the potentially-excellent crafting system isn't well-utilised. Good thing: lots of weapons and blueprints to gather; Bad thing: you never find/obtain what you need so you never see them. Good thing: overall it's not a big game so constant death doesn't leave you feeling as though you'd wasted too many hours. Bad thing: random nature of systems means you can go for several without getting anything useful; Good thing: lots of potentially good upgrades; Bad thing: when you find you run out of fuel (happens far too often) Good thing: some of the random 'quests/missions' you get. Bad thing: no chance to rescue a game when you get ship system damage (often due to having to jump with no/too little fuel) or you get locked in to a system by a jammer; Bad thing; enemies jump in and just overwhelm you always; Bad thing: system warp jump jammers hidden in drone ships that spam you or behind multiple turrets that take you out before you can move; Bad thing: most kinds of drones unless you randomly (luckily) have the right thing in your inventory (you won't); Bad thing: the game seems to know what resources you don't need and gives you them only. Bad thing; enemies with instantly-rechargeable shields that can teleport behind you in the blink of an eye; Bad thing; at times you just wander around a bit and then something from somewhere kills you; Bad thing; with the crafting system et al you could make this game almost infinite in some ways as you're self-sustaining but the devs chose not to allow this as an option (which would make death and restarting less boring). There are a few more things but it is a game I will continue to play. It does have its very, very annoying moments though where you just want to meet the devs to give them a kick more than it has times where you want to congratulate them (crafting system - if you ever get what you need) . Overall it's probably a bit like a lot of games where good ideas aren't realised properly. It could be excellent, but for now if you get a good run it's nice but often it's not down to you, just how lucky you are. That spoils it a lot. Rating should be a straight down the middle 2.5 stars but couldn't choose that. Not that like the much-missed Freelancer, but worth keeping your eye on. If they fixed some elements (less randomness) would definitely recommend.

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Posted on: May 23, 2019

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Spiele: 0 Rezensionen: 1

No sense of progression or exploration

The space combat is great fun and visually outstanding, but the procedurally generated world and restarting from sector 1 each time you die, completely erase any sense of exploration and progression. Ok, you keep the upgrades of your ship between deaths. Ok, from time to time you have a little video of your background story. But what's the point of doing the same sector over and over again? What's the point of pursuing a no-choices, randomly-delivered video story? From the creators of Galaxy on Fire I expected much better. I really miss its persistent world, the space stations where you could dock and talk to people, and an objective-based storyline your could progress at your own pace. There's nothing of all that in this game. Disappointed.

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